... in
fatal Peregrine PJ-2 crash
FLAP ASYMMETRY, the sus pected cause of the 4 August
fatal crash of the Peregrine PJ-2
two-seat jet-powered light air
craft, has occurred twice before
on the Bede BD-10, on which the
PJ-2 is based. Neither incident
resulted in the loss of the aircraft.
Minden, Nevada-based Pere
grine Flight International is still
investigating the crash, which
killed comp...

...ENERAL AVIATION
Bede BD-10 release aimed for August
BY GUY NORMS
IN MOJAVE
The first kit versions of Bede Jet's two-seat, single-turbo
jet BD-10 will be available in
August, according to its de
signer, Jim Bede.
De...

...ikorsky supports
BD-10 unmanned
targetforUSN
SIKORSKY HAS AGREED to provide financial support to
Monitor Jet, which plans to pro
duce the Bede BD-10 jet-powered
kitplane in Canada as a low-cost
trainer and unman...

...on) centre in
nearby Worthing. "The
move is designed to bring
about efficiency improve
ments and to create room for
expansion," says the com
pany's owner and managing
director, Peter Saywell.
BD-10 gives rise to Phoenix Jet
GUY NORRIS/LOS ANGELES
RIGHTS TO THE defunct Bede Jet and its ill-fated
BD-10 supersonic jet have been
acquired by Vortex Aircraft, which
has already begun redesig...

... of these
shops could be violating ama
teur-built regulations by com
pleting kits with little or no
owner involvement.
The first programme which
could be affected by the action
is the Bede Jet BD-10 superson
ic kitplane. George McNeill, of
the FAA's aircraft-certification
division, airworthiness branch,
visited Bede's Missouri factory
in mid-May and has contacted
Fox 10, the Nevada-ba...

...ts to con
clude negotiations on missiles and
satellite alliances with Daimler
Benz Aerospace, "probably by the
end of March". Q
See Air Transport, P9.
HEADLINES
Flutter heads
suspect list in
BD-10 crash
FLUTTER IS SUSPECTED as the cause of the in-flight
break-up of a Bede Jet BD-10
turbojet-powered light aircraft,
which killed the pilot (Flight
International, 11-17 January).
The air...

...ENERAL AVIATION
BD-10 is groomed as
military target drone
BY JOHN MORRIS
Bede Jet's BD-10 supersonic kit-built private jet-aircraft
is being developed for a role as
an unmanned military target
drone, in conjunc...

...ut 3207s. Kits to
build the Monster Pitts should be available later
in the year, according to the company.
Kitplane designer Jim Bede was back at
Oshkosh promoting a deal to put his jet-pow
ered BD-10 into production in Canada as a $2
million military trainer. The single-engined air
craft is to be built under licence by Monitor Jet
of Woodbridge, Ontario, he says. The BD-10
has a chequere...

...ce". Safety issues sur
rounding the continued use of
aviation gas on a ship also con
tributed to the change.
By July, Schweizer Aircraft
will begin producing one
delivery switch
Bede concludes BD-10 test phase
Bede Jet has completed the second phase of flight test
ing the kit-built BD-10 super
sonic two-seat jet-powered air
craft at Mojave, California. The
company expects to complete
...

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German politics dog A3XX site 23
ValuJet/AirTran merger gets final go-ahead
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Phoenixjet is born from BD-10 24
Ross gears up for amphibian development
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...as
Paragon Aircraft and its aircraft
was called the Spirit; the name was
changed, in part because of confu
sion with Peregrine Flight Inter
national, which had attempted to
certificate the Bede BD-10 single-
engined jet-powered light aircraft,
says de la Garza.
The company is aiming to fly the
prototype in the third quarter of
1997. Additional funding will be
required to build a second ...

...anned air
vehicles (UAVs), aerial targets and
uninhabited combat air vehicles
(UCAVs) for potential military
markets worldwide.
The Monitor's all-composite
airframe design is based on the
Bede BD-10 single turbojet air
craft. Canadian Aerospace's other
products include the Twin Panda
19-seat regional aircraft, with the
Canadian firm serving as the Nordi
American completion centre for
...

...ternational to offer
Portugal co-production of
die Monitor jet trainer as part
of a bid to sell 12 S-92
maritime patrol helicopters
to the Portuguese air force.
The Monitor - based on the
Bede BD-10 kitplane - forms
part of a proposed industrial
offset package.
• EHUD SUCCESS
Israel's BVR Systems has
won a $43 million contract to
supply its EHUD rangeless
air combat manoeuvring
inst...